EDS4250 Literacies Across the Curriculum

Synopsis

This course explores the links between literacies and learning and focuses on the embedding of literacies into the planning and implementation of learning opportunities in all curriculum areas. Pre-service teachers will learn about a range of appropriate frameworks and pedagogies for developing students' literacies capabilities and will learn how to design and plan curriculum units as well as focused and appropriate learning/teaching episodes for diverse learners. Specific attention will be paid to language forms, features and textual structures of written, visual and multimodal texts, as well as to authentic assessment and pre-service teachers' abilities to evaluate and critique planning for teaching literacies across the curriculum.

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